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RECENT AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Correlation-boosted quantum engine: A proof-of-principle demonstration, M. Herrera, J. H. Reina, I. D'Amico, and R. M. Serra | Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043104  (2023) | arXiv |

Trapped ions beyond carrier and sideband interactions, T. Tassis and F. L. Semião | Phys. Rev. A 107, 042605 (2023) | arXiv |

Exploring quantum thermodynamics with NMR, C. H. S. Vieira, J. L. D. de Oliveira, J. F. G. Santos, P. R. Dieguez and R. M. Serra | J. Magn. Reson. Open 16-17, 100105 (2023) | arXiv |

Thermal devices powered by generalized measurements with indefinite causal order, P. R. Dieguez, V. F. Lisboa, and R. M. Serra | Phys. Rev. A 107, 012423 (2023) | arXiv |

Experimental investigation of a quantum heat engine powered by generalized measurements, V. F. Lisboa, P. R. Dieguez, J. R. Guimarães, J. F. G. Santos, and R. M. Serra | Phys. Rev. A 106, 022436 (2022) | arXiv |

Experimental assessment of physical realism in a quantum controlled device, P. R. Dieguez, J. R. Guimarães, J. P. S. Peterson, R. M. Angelo, and R. M. Serra | Communications Physics 5, 82 (2022) | arXiv | featured in: Popular Mechanics PhysOrg ; TNWCanaltech ; Agência FAPESP  

Coherence behavior of strongly coupled bosonic modes, J. F. Sousa, C. H. S. Vieira, J. F. G. Santos, and Ir. G. da Paz | Phys. Rev. A 106, 032401 (2022) | arXiv |

Pulsed multireservoir engineering for a trapped ion with applications to state synthesis and quantum Otto cycles, W. S. Teixeira, M. K. Keller, and F. L. Semião |  New J. Phys. 24, 023027 (2022) | arXiv |

Assessment of weak-coupling approximations on a driven two-level system under dissipation
W. S. Teixeira, F. L. Semião, J. Tuorila, and M. Möttönen | New J. Phys. 24 013005 (2021) | arXiv |

Experimental Validation of Fully Quantum Fluctuation Theorems Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks, K. Micadei, J. P. S. Peterson, A. M. Souza, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, G. T. Landi, R. M. Serra, and E. Lutz | Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 180603 (2021) | arXiv |

Easy Access to Energy Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Systems, M. Herrera, J. P. S. Peterson, R. M. Serra, and I. D’Amico | Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030602 (2021) | arXiv |

Few-Mode Field Quantization of Arbitrary Electromagnetic Spectral Densities, I. Medina, F. J. García-Vidal, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, and J. Feist | Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 093601 (2021) | arXiv |

Suppressing coherence effects in quantum-measurement-based engines, Zhiyuan Lin, Shanhe Su, Jingyi Chen, Jincan Chen, and Jonas F. G. Santos | Phys. Rev. A 104, 062210 (2021) | arXiv |

Quantum versus classical transport of energy in coupled two-level systems, I. Medina, S. V. Moreira, and F. L. Semião | Phys. Rev. A 103, 052216 (2021) | arXiv |

Time-Dependent Dephasing and Quantum Transport, S. V. Moreira, B. Marques, and F. L. Semião | Entropy 23, 1179 (2021)arXiv |

Simulation of a quantum jump in three-level systems using photonic Gaussian modes, A. C. Cardoso, J. G. L. Condé, B. Marques, J. S. Cabral, and S. Pádua | Phys. Rev. A 103, 013722 (2021) | arXiv |

Coherence dynamics induced by attenuation and amplification Gaussian channels, J. F. G. Santos, C. H. S. Vieira | Eur. Phys. J. Plus 136, 323 (2021) | arXiv |

Negativity-Mutual Information conversion and coherence in two-coupled harmonic oscillators, J. F. G. Santos, C. H. S. Vieira, P. R. Dieguez | Physica A 125937 (2021) | arXiv |

Quantum thermodynamics aspects with a thermal reservoir based on PT-symmetric Hamiltonians, J. F. G. Santos and F. S. Luiz | J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54 335301 (2021) | arXiv |

 

Sorkin parameter for type-I spontaneous parametric down-conversion biphotons and matter waves, F. C. V. de Brito, C. H. S. Vieira, I. G. da Paz, J. B. Araujo, and M. Sampaio | Phys. Rev. A 103, 033707 (2021) | arXiv |

Exploring entanglement in open cavity parametric oscillators: From triply to doubly resonant cavities, B. A. F. Ribeiro, R. B. Andrade, M. Martinelli, and B. Marques | Phys. Rev. A 102, 023522 (2020) | arXiv

Work-distribution quantumness and irreversibility when crossing a quantum phase transition in finite time, K. Zawadzki, R. M. Serra, I. D'Amico | Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033167 (2020) | arXiv​ |

Employing non-Markovian effects to improve the performance of a quantum Otto refrigerator, P. A. Camati, J. F. G. Santos, and R. M. Serra | Phys. Rev. A 102, 012217 (2020) | arXiv |

In- and out-of-equilibrium quantum metrology with mean-field quantum criticality, S. Wald, S. V. Moreira, and F.  L. Semião | Phys. Rev. E 101, 052107 (2020) | arXiv

Enhancing quantum transport efficiency by tuning non-Markovian dephasing, S. V. Moreira, B. Marques, R. R. Paiva, L. S. Cruz, D. O. Soares-Pinto, and F. L. Semião | Phys. Rev. A 101, 012123 (2020) | arXiv |

Irrealism from fringe visibility in matter-wave double-slit interference with initial contractive states, F. R. Lustosa, P. R. Dieguez, I. G. da Paz | Phys. Rev. A 102, 052205 (2020) | arXiv |

Heat flow and noncommutative quantum mechanics in phase-space, J. F. G. Santos    | Journal of Mathematical Physics 61, 122101 (2020) | arXiv |

Quantum coherence and speed limit in the mean-field Dicke model of superradiance, D. Z. Rossatto, D. P. Pires, F. M. de Paula, O. P. de Sá Neto | Phys. Rev. A 102, 053716 (2020) | arXiv |

Simulating Markovian quantum decoherence processes through an all-optical setup, P. C. Obando, M. H. M.  Passos, F. M. Paula, J. A. O. Huguenin | Quantum Information Processing 19, 1 (2020) |

Experimental characterization of a spin quantum heat engine, J. P. S. Peterson, T. B. Batalhão, M. Herrera, A. M. Souza, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, and R. M. Serra | Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 240601 (2019) | arXiv | featured in: PhysOrg ; Nanowerk ; Nanotechnology Nowand highlighted as Editors' Suggestion

Reversing the direction of heat flow using quantum correlations, K. Micadei, J. P. S. Peterson, A. M. Souza, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, G. T. Landi, T. B. Batalhão, R. M. Serra, and E. Lutz | Nature Communications 10, 2456 (2019) | pdfarXiv | featured in:  Science News ; The Times ; MIT Technology Review ; Newsweek  ; Europa Press ;  Folha de S. Paulo ; Revista Pesquisa FAPESP ; Quanta Magazine

 

Dynamical chaotic phases and constrained quantum dynamics, A. M. Timpanaro, S. Wald, F. L. Semião, and G. T. Landi | Phys. Rev. A 100, 012117 (2019) | arXiv |

Pulse engineering for population control under dephasing and dissipation, I. Medina and F. L. Semião | Phys. Rev. A 100, 012103 (2019)arXiv |

Coherence effects in the performance of the quantum Otto heat engine, P. A. Camati, J. F. G. Santos, and R. M. Serra | Phys. Rev. A 99, 062103 (2019) | arXiv | 

Inducing non-trivial qubit coherence through a controlled dispersive environment, W. S. Teixeira, F. Nicacio, F. L. Semião | Phys. Rev. A 99, 032102 (2019) | arXiv |

Quantifying quantum invasiveness, S. V. Moreira and M. Terra Cunha | Phys. Rev. A 99, 022124 (2019) | arXiv

Investigating nonclassicality in nonlinear electronic spectroscopy, S. V. Moreira and F. L. Semião | Quantum Sci. Technol. 4, 03LT01 (2019)arXiv |


High-Dimensional Quantum Communication Complexity beyond Strategies Based on Bell’s Theorem, D. Martínez, A. Tavakoli, M. Casanova, G. Cañas, B. Marques, and G. Lima | Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150504 (2018) | arXiv |

 

Experimental Determination of Irreversible Entropy Production in out-of-Equilibrium Mesoscopic Quantum Systems, M. Brunelli, L. Fusco, R. Landi, W. Wieczorek, J. Hoelscher-Obermaier, G. Landi, F. L. Semião, A. Ferraro, N. Kiesel, T. Donner, G. De Chiara, and M. Paternostro | Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160604 (2018) | arXivfeatured in: Physics (APS synopsis) and highlighted as Editors' Suggestion
 

Role of quantum coherence in the thermodynamics of energy transfer, C. I. Henao and R. M. Serra | Physical Review E 97, 062105 (2018) | arXiv |

 

Verifying Detailed Fluctuation Relations for Discrete Feedback Controlled Quantum Dynamics, P. A. Camati and R. M. Serra | Physical Review A 97, 042127 (2018)  | arXiv |

Melting a Hubbard dimer: benchmarks of ‘ALDA’ for quantum thermodynamics,  Marcela Herrera, Krissia Zawadzki & Irene D’Amico | The European Physical Journal B 91, 248 (2018)

 

DFT-inspired methods for quantum thermodynamics,  M. Herrera, R. M. Serra, and I. D'Amico | Scientific Reports 7,  4655 (2017) | arXiv |

 

Transmission losses in optical qubits for controlled teleportation,  I. Medina and F. L. Semião | Quantum Inf. Process. 16, 235 (2017) | arXiv |

 

Energy transport in the presence of entanglementA. A. Cifuentes and F. L. Semião | Physical Review A 95, 062302 (2017) | arXiv |

 

Coupled modes locally interacting with qubits: Critical assessment of the rotating-wave approximation, P. C. Cárdenas, W. S. Teixeira, and F. L. Semião | Physical Review A 95, 042116 (2017) | arXiv |

 

Experimental Rectification of Entropy Production by Maxwell’s Demon in a Quantum System, P. A. Camati, J. P. S. Peterson, T. B. Batalhão, K. Micadei, A. M. Souza, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, and R. M. Serra | Physical Review Letters 117, 240502 (2016) | arXiv | featured in: Physics (APS viewpoint) ; Pro-physik - German physics portal ; Lenta - Moscow based newspaper ; Revista Pesquisa FAPESP , and highlighted as Editors' Suggestion

 

Performance of dynamical decoupling in bosonic environments and under pulse-timing fluctuations, W. S. Teixeira, K. T. Kapale, M. Paternostro, and F. L. Semião | Physical Review A 94, 062322 (2016) | arXiv |

 

Quantum thermodynamics and work fluctuations with applications to magnetic resonance, W. L. Ribeiro, G. T. Landi, and F. L. Semião | American Journal of Physics 84, 948 (2016) | arXiv |

 

Coupled harmonic systems as quantum buses in thermal environmentsF. Nicacio and F. L. Semião | Journal of Physics. A  49, 375303 (2016) | arXiv |

 

Transport of correlations in a harmonic chain, F. Nicacio and F. L. Semião | Physical Review A 94, 012327 (2016) | arXiv |

 

Nonequilibrium properties of trapped ions under sudden application of a laserA. A. Cifuentes, F. Nicacio, M. Paternostro, and F. L. Semião | Physical Review A 94, 013406 (2016) | arXiv |

 

Irreversibility and the arrow of time in a quenched quantum system, T. B. Batalhao, A. M. Souza, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, M. Paternostro, E. Lutz, and R. M. Serra | Physical Review Letters 115, 190601 (2015) | arXiv | featured in: Physics  (APS viewpoint) ; Physics World (IOP) ; PhysOrg ; Revista Pesquisa FAPESP ; and highlighted as Editors' Suggestion)

 

Practical security analysis of two-way quantum key distribution protocols based on non-orthogonal states, C. I. Henao and R. M. Serra |Physical Review A 92, 052317 (2015) | arXiv |

 

Non-Markovian qubit dynamics in a circuit-QED setup, P. C. Cárdenas, M. Paternostro, and F. L. Semião | Physical Review A 91, 022122 (2015) | arXiv |

 

Cavity-aided quantum parameter estimation in a bosonic double-well Josephson junction, M. Zuppardo, J. P. Santos, G. de Chiara, M. Paternostro, F. L. Semião, and G. M. Palma | Physical Review A 91, 033631 (2015) | arXiv |

 

Thermal transport in out-of-equilibrium quantum harmonic chains, F. Nicacio, A Ferraro, A. L. Imparato, M. Paternostro, and F. L. Semião | Physical Review E 91, 042116 (2015) | arXiv |

 

Coherent measurements in quantum metrology, K. Micadei, D. A. Rowlands, F. A. Pollock, L. C. Céleri, R. M. Serra, and K. Modi | New Journal of Physics 17, 023057 (2015) | arXiv |

 

Experimental reconstruction of work distribution and study of fluctuation relations in a closed quantum system, T. B. Batalhão, A. M. Souza, L. Mazzola, R. Auccaise, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, J. Goold, G. De Chiara, M. Paternostro, and R. M. Serra | Physical Review Letters 113, 140601 (2014) | arXiv | featured in: Revista Pesquisa FAPESP highlighted as Editors' Suggestion)

 

Nonperturbative approach to system-reservoir dynamics in the strong-coupling regime and non-Markovian dynamics, T. B. Batalhão, G. D. de Moraes Neto, M. A. de Ponte, and M. H. Y. Moussa | Physical Review A 90, 032105 (2014) |

 

Nonadiabatic quantum state engineering driven by fast quench dynamics, M. Herrera, M. S. Sarandy, E. I. Duzzioni, and R. M. Serra | Physical Review A 89, 022323 (2014) | arXiv |

 

Quantum model for a periodically driven selectivity filter in a K ion channel, A. A. Cifuentes and F. L. Semião | Journal of Physics B 47, 225503 (2014) | arXiv |

 

Master equation for dissipative interacting qubits in a common environment, J. P. Santos and F. L. Semião | Physical Review A 89, 022128 (2014) | arXiv |

 

Tight bounds for the entanglement of formation of Gaussian states, F. Nicacio and M. C. de Oliveira | Phys. Rev. A 89, 012336 (2014) |

 

Thermodynamic cost of acquiring information, K. Micadei, R. M. Serra, and L. C. Céleri | Physical Review E 88, 062123 (2013) | arXiv |

 

Motional entanglement with trapped ions and a nanomechanical resonator, F. Nicacio, K. Furuya, and F. L. Semião |Physical Review A 88, 022330 (2013) | arXiv |

 

Coherent control of population transfer between vibrational states in an optical lattice via two-path quantum interference, C. Zhuang, C. R. Paul, X. Liu, S. Maneshi, L. S. Cruz, A. M. Steinberg | Physical Review Letters 111, 233002 (2013) | arXiv |

 

Quantum Discord in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Systems at Room Temperature, J. Maziero, R. Auccaise, L. C. Céleri, D. O. Soares-Pinto, E. R. de Azevedo, T. J. Bonagamba, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, and R. M. Serra | Braz. J. of Physics 43, 86 (2013) | arXiv | invited contribution; article commissioned by editors of BJP

 

Quantum delayed-choice experiment in an environment with arbitrary white noise, J. G. Filgueiras, R. S Sarthour, A. M. de Souza, I. S. Oliveira, R. M. Serra and L. C. Céleri | J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 46, 245301 (2013) arXiv |

 

Observer invariance of the collapse postulate of quantum mechanics, M. A. da Silva Jr., R. M. Serra, and L. C. Céleri | Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 27, 1345013 (2013) | arXiv | invited contribution to the special issue: 'Classical Vs Quantum correlations in composite systems' edited by L. Amico, S. Bose, V. Korepin and V. Vedral

 

Physical interpretation for the correlation spectra of electromagnetically-induced-transparency resonances, D. Felinto, L. S. Cruz, R. A. de Oliveira, H. M. Florez, M. H. G. de Miranda, P. Nussenzveig, M. Martinelli, and J. W. R. Tabosa |Optics Express 21, 1512 (2013)|

 

Power-broadening-free correlation spectroscopy in cold atoms, H. M. Flores, L. S. Cruz, M. H. G. de Miranda, R. A. de Oliveira, J. W. R. Tabosa, M. Martinelli, D. Felinto | Physical review A 88, 033812, (2013)| arXiv |

 

Experimental estimate of a classicality witness via a single measurement, G. H. Aguilar, O. Jiménez Farías, J. Maziero, R. M. Serra, P. H. S. Ribeiro, and S. P. Walborn | Physical Review Letters 108, 063601 (2012) |

 

Entanglement in atomic systems interacting with single-photon pulses in free space, J. P. Santos and F. L. Semião | Physical Review A 86, 053825 (2012) | arXiv |

 

Experimental analysis of the quantum complementarity principle, R. Auccaise, R. M. Serra, J. G. Filgueiras, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, and L. C. Céleri | Physical Review A 85, 032121 (2012) | arXiv |

 

Long-range quantum discord in critical spin systems, J. Maziero, L. C. Céleri, R. M. Serra, and M. S. Sarandy | Physics Letters A 376, 1540 (2012) |arXiv|

 

Non-Markovian effects on the nonlocality of a qubit-oscillator system, J. Li, G. McKeown, F. L. Semião, and M. Paternostro | Physical Review A 85, 022116 (2012) |arXiv|

 

Nuclear magnetic resonance quantum information processing, R. M. Serra and I. S. Oliveira | Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 370, 4615 (2012) |

 

Classicality witness for two-qubit states, J. Maziero and R. M. Serra | Int. J. Quantum Information 10, 1250028 (2012) | arXiv |

 

On the quantumness of correlations in nuclear magnetic resonance, D. O. Soares-Pinto, R. Auccaise, J. Maziero, A. Gavini-Viana, R. M. Serra, and L. C. Céleri | Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 370, 4821 (2012) | arXiv |

 

Quantum circuits for spin and flavor degrees of freedom of quarks forming nucleons, F. L. Semião and M. Paternostro | Quantum Information Processing 11, 67 (2012) |arXiv |

 

Environment-induced sudden transition in quantum discord dynamics, R. Auccaise, L. C. Celeri, D. O. Soares-Pinto, E. R. deAzevedo, J. Maziero, A. M. Souza, T. J. Bonagamba, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, and R. M. Serra | Physical Review Letters 107, 140403 (2011) | arXiv |

 

Experimentally witnessing the quantumness of correlations, R. Auccaise, J. Maziero, L. C. Celeri, D. O. Soares-Pinto, E. R. deAzevedo, T. J. Bonagamba, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, R. M. Serra | Physical Review Letters 107, 070501 (2011) | arXiv |

 

Quantum computation in continuous time using dynamic invariants, M.S. Sarandy, E.I. Duzzioni, and R.M. Serra | Physics Letters A 375, 3343 (2011) | arXiv |

 

Theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum discord and related measures, L. C. Céleri, J. Maziero, and R. M. Serra | Int. J. Quantum Information 9, 1837 (2011) | arXiv | invited contribution to the special issue: 'Quantum Correlations: entanglement and beyond'

 

Equivalence between Redfield and master equation approaches for a time-dependent quantum system and coherence control, D. O. Soares-Pinto, M. H. Y. Moussa, J. Maziero, E. R. deAzevedo, T. J. Bonagamba, R. M. Serra, L. C. Céleri | Physical Review A 83, 062336 (2011) |arXiv |

 

Coherence Freeze in an Optical Lattice Investigated Via Pump-Probe Spectroscopy, S. Maneshi, C. Zhuang, C. R. Paul, L. S. Cruz, and A. Steinberg | Physical Review Letters 105, 193001 (2010) |arXiv|

 

Quantum and classical thermal correlations in the XY spin-1/2 chain, J. Maziero, H. C. Guzman, L. C. Celeri, M. S. Sarandy, R. M. Serra | Physical Review A 82, 012106 (2010) | arXiv |

 

Sudden change in quantum and classical correlations and the Unruh effect, L. C. Celeri, A. G. S. Landulfo, R. M. Serra, and G. E. A. Matsas | Physical Review A 81, 062130 (2010) | arXiv |

 

Nonclassical correlation in NMR quadrupolar systems, D. O. Soares-Pinto, L. C. Celeri, R. Auccaise, F. F. Fanchini, E. R. deAzevedo, J. Maziero, T. J. Bonagamba, and R. M. Serra | Physical Review A 81, 062118 (2010) | arXiv |

 

System-reservoir dynamics of quantum and classical correlations, J. Maziero, T. Werlang, F. F. Fanchini, L. C. Céleri, and R. M. Serra | Physical Review A 81, 022116 (2010) | arXiv |

 

Classical and quantum correlations under decoherence, J. Maziero, L. C. Céleri, R. M. Serra, and V. Vedral | Physical Review A 80, 044102 (2009) | arXiv |

 

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